الصفحة 77 - 1 John ii. 1. This is about the sum of doctrine among us, in 1 which can be seen tnat there is nothing which is discrepant with the Scriptures, or with the Church Catholic, or even with the Roman Church, so far as that Church is known from writers [the writings of the Fathers].‏

الصفحة 24 - God's steward ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre ; but given to hospitality, a lover of good, soberminded, just, holy, temperate ; holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.‏

الصفحة 138 - The Unity of the Church is witnessed to, and made manifest in, the solemn, public and official Confessions which are set forth, to wit: The generic Unity of the Christian Church in the general Creeds, and the specific Unity of pure parts of the Christian Church in their specific Creeds, one chief object of both classes of which Creeds is, that Christians who are in the Unity of faith may know each other as such, and may have a visible bond of fellowship. IV. That Confessions may be such a testimony...‏

الصفحة 77 - Those things only have been enumerated which it seemed necessary to say, that it might bo understood that in doctrine and ceremonials among us there is nothing received contrary to Scripture or to the Catholic [Universal Christian] Church, inasmuch as it is manifest that we have diligently taken heed that no new and godless doctrines should creep into our churches.‏

الصفحة 139 - Confession, we declare our conviction, that the other Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, inasmuch as they set forth none other than its system of doctrine, and articles of faith, are of necessity pure and Scriptural.‏